Yellow

Yellow
Yellow
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Color coordinates
Hex	#FFE800
RGB	(255, 232, 0)
CMYK	(0, 9, 100, 0)
CIELab*	(90, -3, 90)
Pantone	Yellow U
Ink information
Brand
Series	Standard
Product number(s)
GR/RP	S-4391
Z-Type	S-4279

Yellow is one of the standard inks from —it is a bright process yellow, and is the most common form of yellow used in CMYK color setups.

Yellow

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HEX: #FFE800RGB: (255, 232, 0)CMYK: (0, 9, 100, 0)

Characteristics

Yellow uses a clear base, and can overprint with other inks very well. As the other common yellow inks—Sunflower Light Lime Flat Gold Bright Olive Green—are very far from Yellow in hue, it operates in a unique place as far as color mixing goes (and can expand the gamut of most ink palettes).

However, straight Yellow on its own is often too light to be read clearly (unless at very large sizes). Whereas most of the other inks above can be be used as legible spot colors.

Citron and Fluorescent Yellow are rarer yellow alternatives.

Combinations

Yellow and Black combine to make dull olive greens.
Yellow and Fluorescent Pink combine to make bright, rich oranges (warmer than Fluorescent Orange).

Mixtures

Yellow can be mixed with a small amount of a complimentary purple (such as Purple Orchid Violet) to create a darker yellow, without shifting the hue too warm/cool.

Mixing formula for darker yellow
Ink	%	By weight in tube
Yellow	95	950 g
Purple	5	50 g

Properties

Yellow is known to act as a resist to other inks printed on top of it—it dulls the colors, and makes them appear patchier (particularly when printing wet on wet). For this reason it is often printed last.

Usage

There are 257 places printing with Yellow (74% of all active places).

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A map of places printing with Yellow—as listed in the Atlas.